Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Couch Or Crouch, William Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 15, 2006, 3:04 am Pension Application Of William C[r]ouch, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 662, Application #R2532 John Couch, son of WILLIAM C[R]OUCH, a resident of Hancock county, TN: “That he is a son and heir-at-law of WILLIAM C[R]OUCH and of Margaret Couch…both deceased. That his said father, the said WILLIAM was a private of infantry in the Revolutionary War and the reason he states that his father was a private of infantry is from what he has heard his mother say often. She said that his father said he had rather be an officer in service, that their fares were better, and that he served a while as sergeant in the place of a sergeant that was sick, and the reason why he states that he was of infantry, he has heard his mother speak of how far in marching his father would have to walk, with very small rations, and that he was wounded in the Battle of Guilford, NC. Fought under General GREENE on March 15th, 1781, and that the British were victorious” “…That he has heard his mother state the foregoing with other conflicts he had while in service, times past his recollection, and that for the last two or three years of his mother’s age, she lost her mind to such extent that she was not able to state the facts as correct as she could prior to that time." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/couchorc141gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb